Table 2.

Summary statistics of variables of interest, Nigeria 2010

Notation	Variables of interest	Description	Mean	SDa	Min	Max
HHs	Household size	Household size	4.88	3.12	1	24
Sex	Sex:	Sex of the household head
	Female	Female head dummy	0.22	0.42	0	1
	Male	Male head dummy	0.78	0.42	0	1
Age	Age	Age of household head	54.73	15.09	18.00	102.00
Age_fem	Age and Gender	Interaction term for age*gender	13.17	25.7	0	95
Edu	Education of household head	1: has attended school, 0 - otherwise	0.72	0.45	0	1
Eldn1	Proportion of households with >1 elderly member	1: has >1 elderly, 0 otherwise	0.52	0.50	0	1
Occu	Proportion of households that are self employed	1: head of household is self-employed, 0 otherwise	0.51	0.50	0	1
Phf	Proportion of households using private health facilities	1: household uses private health facilities, 0 otherwise	0.08	0.27	0	1
Bednet	Health promoting measure – bednets type:	Proportion of households using bednets
B1	Untreated bednet	1: yes, 0 otherwise	0.07	0.26	0	1
B2	Treated bednet use < 6 months	1: yes, 0 otherwise	0.19	0.39	0	1
B3	Treated bednet use > 6 months	1: yes, 0 otherwise	0.06	0.23	0	1
B4	No bednet	1: none, 0 otherwise	0.68	0.47	0	1
Hosp	At least one member has been hospitalised	1: yes, 0 otherwise	0.03	0.18	0	1
Selfdiff	At least one member has a self-care difficulty	1: yes, 0 otherwise	0.04	0.19	0	1
NHIS	Proportion of households without NHIS coverage	1: yes, 0 otherwise	0.60	0.49	0	1
Infs	Proportion of households with informal financing support	1: yes, 0 otherwise	0.40	0.49	0	1

Author’s calculations based on the NGHPS 2010 data (N = 1176), urban elderly households sample

^aS.D: standard deviation